Tidal Store Closing
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Topic: Tidal Store Closing
Posted By: PopArchivist
Subject: Tidal Store Closing
Date Posted: 20 October 2022 at 12:40pm
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Brian W just let me know.
This is on their website We are closing the TIDAL Download Store on Oct 20, 2022. TIDAL Store subscribers with pending downloads as of October 20th have until Jan 23rd to download purchases from their account to one device. Long live Qobuz. 7 Digital nice knowing you too. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
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Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 20 October 2022 at 12:46pm
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Tidal streaming will still remain open. But, yes, 7Digital
seems to be on its last legs... they've lost Sony and Warner. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 20 October 2022 at 12:48pm
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so, everything is going to be streaming only? ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 20 October 2022 at 12:53pm
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It seems to be moving in that direction, not only with music, but with home video. But I don't think Tidal is closing the store division with any grand scheme in mind... I think it's just not profitable. And I think what's killing 7Digital is
probably Qobuz. And I also think that's what's behind the whole move toward streaming-only: the labels simply make more money off streaming. A sale, they make a profit one time. Streaming, they make money every time you play the song. It's all about money. With home video, Disney in particular is being very stingy with what it releases in physical format for the past couple years. They want everything to just be on Disney Plus. |
Posted By: Scott Young
Date Posted: 20 October 2022 at 4:48pm
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I use the Tidable Music Converter to
download lossless from Tidal. It was a one time buyout. I'll be disappointed if Tidal finds a way to block Tidable from working. |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 20 October 2022 at 5:24pm
The fact you can still download previous purchases through January means to me that its still up there just the pages to download from are gone. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Scott Young wrote:Posted By: AutumnAarilyn
Date Posted: 20 October 2022 at 8:57pm
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"By 2030, you'll own nothing, and be happy." -Klaus Schwab
Not me! |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 21 October 2022 at 3:19am
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Klaus Schwab, my hero!, Douche ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 22 October 2022 at 6:55am
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As an indication of how few digital downloads are being
sold these days, the song currently at #3 on Billboard's Digital Sales chart is "Everywhere" by Fleetwood Mac, currently being used in a car commercial. It sold 5000 digital downloads last week. In a country of 335,000,000 people, you only need to sell 5000 digital downloads to have the third best-selling download in the country. |
Posted By: AutumnAarilyn
Date Posted: 22 October 2022 at 11:41am
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Aren't labels cannibalizing their sales by making downloads
"unavailable" sort of like they did with vinyl in 1989, cd singles in the 90's (in the US anyway), and the current lack of licensing older material reputable third partiesfor cds. This is what happens when power is in the hands of a few after all those mergers. |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 14 November 2022 at 12:59am
Brian, did you ever read why Sony and Warner stopped making their lossless files available to 7 Digital, yet still to qobuz? And when did this happen? Both labels at the same time? |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 14 November 2022 at 1:02am
Yes. And sometimes on qobuz, I'll find a song I want to buy, but then it says "download unavailable". It's only available for streaming. Then there are cases where a song isn't available for sale on qobuz, 7D, Tidal, iTunes, and literally the only place I can find it is Spotify. So I have to record it off there instead of buying the file from qobuz, etc. Very frustrating. Other singles on qobuz are, say, $1.79 - but from me they get 1 stream. Doesn't make a lot of $ sense to me. |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 28 July 2024 at 6:29pm
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I recently started a trial membership to Tidal.
Their website has the following in their FAQ:
For those of you that remember MQA, it was a hyped format that claimed to give you better sound in 16 bits than was possible with conventional 16-bit audio. It was all BS. And, it turns out, it was lossy! In null tests with Tidal-downloaded files, I've noticed artifacts that sound just like the artifacts you hear from lossy files. (Like comparing a 320 kbps mp3 to its lossless counterpart.) The artifacts show up only when I'm comparing a Tidal-downloaded file to a file that clearly doesn't have MQA (like a CD rip, a Qobuz-downloaded file, a TM Century file, a Promo Only file, or a Hitmakers file). As I type this, we're after the July 24 deadline, and I noticed the artifacts from a file I downloaded just today. I strongly doubt that Tidal will go through every file on its website to revert it to its non-MQA original state, if that's even possible. Bottom line: I no longer trust Tidal for lossless files. ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |